A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems

faces to make them let go. Then soldiers
appeared--good-looking, undersized
men--wearing each a knapsack covered with
mangy fur, and a great-coat which had been
cut for some larger soldier. Beside them
walked officers, looking foolish and fierce, and
before them went little boys, turning
somersaults in time with the band. The tramcar
became entangled in their ranks, and moved
on painfully, like a caterpillar in a swarm of
ants. One of the little boys fell down, and some
white bullocks came out of an archway.
Indeed, if it had not been for the good advice
of an old man who was selling button-hooks,
the road might never have got clear.
Over such trivialities as these many a
valuable hour may slip away, and the traveller
who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values
of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may
return remembering nothing but the blue sky
and the men and women who live under it. So
it was as well that Miss Bartlett should tap and
come in, and having commented on Lucy's